Lost Dogs, Last Birds, and Listed Species: Cultures of Extinction
Lost Dogs, Last Birds, and Listed Species: Cultures of Extinction
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失踪的狗、最后的鸟类和列出的物种：灭绝的文化
DOI：
10.1353/con.2010.0007
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发表时间：
2011
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影响因子：
0.1
通讯作者：
U. Heise
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作者：
U. Heise
人类目前正面临着一些生物学家所说的地球生命史上第六次物种大灭绝，也是第一次由人类引发的物种大灭绝。这篇文章将通常伴随着生物多样性丧失的科学叙述与环保主义者关于自然衰退的长期传统故事联系起来。它展示了哀歌和悲剧故事模板如何将特定物种的衰落变成对现代化进程进行更广泛批判的工具，并探索了另一种喜剧叙事模板，在进化、偶然和实验的背景下接近灭绝。
Humankind is currently confronted with what some biologists call the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, and the first one triggered by humans. This essay places the narrative that usually accompanies scientific accounts of biodiversity loss in relation to the long tradition of environmentalist stories about the decline of nature. It demonstrates how elegiac and tragic story templates turn accounts of the decline of a particular species into tools for a broader critique of modernization processes, and explores an alternative, comedic narrative template that approaches extinction in the context of evolution, contingency, and experiment.